Bug#824383: gnome-software: packages not installed from repositories are claimed to be non-free

[Paul Wise]

On Sun, 2016-05-15 at 18:22 +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote:

> For stuff that is not in any repository *and* does not have an
> AppStream metainfo file containing licensing information, GNOME
> Software can not determine whether the software is free software.
> That's why it displays the "might be non-free" badge, and I'm afraid
> this issue can only be fixed in Xchat itself, by making it provide a
> metainfo file (so the License doesn't stay "unknown"), or by
> reintroducing it to a Debian repository (because we implicitly assume
> everything in Debian main is Free software).

The requisite metadata is available (Debian Section), why can't
gnome-software pay attention to that information??

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise


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